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I agree. My comment was mainly a joke.
Autonomous senna is the utopian version of what we will get. |
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there will be a big market for hotting up EV's, they are doing it now in the US
they have drag tesla's imaging buying a used [insert generic EV here] and putting a bigger battery in it then upgrading motors, brakes from a prehistoric FPV or HSV a 10 second prius is probably achievable in the next 10 years with bolt on parts i'll still have my GT and kingswood in the garage though
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DIY Tragic
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So the spam emails of the future will be for Prius enlargement?
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I could see the demand for what we know as vehicles dying off in the future, but that would be a long time off. People who are born 50+ years from now will grow up in an era of autonomous vehicles and will not know anything else. As these people grow up I can see their interest in an ancient concept being non existent. For every member on this forum as of today, I think we will always be able to drive in some way. |
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Motor racing isn't about to die out, that's for sure.
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Vinyl music, tapes and evet CDS. Even buying itune songs is old school. All they know is music streaming spotify etc |
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I had cassettes as a real youngster, CDs and certainly remember vinyl, as that's all my mum played. I've always loved the internet era of music. Pre iPods, just burning music onto CDs was great. These days the young lads I work with wouldn't even use an iPod as a paper weight. Times, they are a changin'! |
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I'd say it's been dying since cars have been getting more complicated.
Less and less modifications you can do yourself unless you own an old car. The new cars people are buying they're mostly buying with an eye to resell, so boring specs, boring colours, because there might be less buyers for something a little different, and so the manufacturers stop making anything a little different. Dodge are an exception, they've cornered the niche, but they're not available here, and if they ever do start selling Challengers and the like, I bet we won't get the full range of options they get in the US, they'll come in 3 different colours with 2 engine choices. I'm becoming more of a fan of Jeep too. Everyone else is making their 4wds comfortable on road SUVs, while Jeep alone are focusing on off road enthusiasts. But I don't think electric will kill off enthusiasts. We'll see a different breed of enthusiast doing things we've never even considered. And autonomous? Sure, they're coming, but it'll be decades before they replace every vehicle, and quite honestly, outside of the city it'll take even longer. If I want to go visit my mate on his sheep station outside town how is an autonomous vehicle going to cope? How is it going to explore his 40,000+ acres? Maybe one day you'll only be allowed to use a self drive vehicle on private property and hop in your autonomous to go to town, but I reckon we'll all be long gone by then. |
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Rubbish at or the near future. maybe in 30years when self driving ev have satisfied the actuaries.
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- It can track where your car is at any time - Speed history - Cameras inside and outside of the car - black box data to be reviewed in car crash to see your driving actions. - cars will be almost impossible to steal as the owner will be alerted, the car tracked and you be filmed by the cars camera. - It can restrict who drives at what speed and where e.g teenagers |
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The tech installed in these vehicles will be defeated, for whatever purpose, almost as soon as it comes on line.
Volvo were looking for a solution for the detection of kangaroos in western QLD, were here two years and spent 450Mill and went home after all failed. Yes and testing of automated cars is going on in QLD presently and the Proff in charge admitted on radio yesterday afternoon that autonomous cars are expected to reduce the road toll by 200 per year over the next twenty years. Only being tested in Brisbane not in rural roads. It seems the tech they are using is defeated by the sun in QLD. Considering the growth in vehicles on the road, the road toll will remain about the same percentage of deaths it is now.
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BAII RTV - with Raptor V S/C. RTV Power FG G6ET 50th Anniversary in Sensation. While the basic Ford Six was code named Barra, the Turbo version clearly deserved its very own moniker – again enter Gordon Barfield.
We asked him if the engine had actually been called “Seagull” and how that came about. “Actually it was just call “Gull”, because I named it that. Because we knew it was going to poo on everything”. |
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Before electronic tracking came along Trucks had Kienzle tachograph's. A spokesman from Kienzle said that they could make them Bombproof and fireproof, but couldn't make them Driverproof ![]()
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Yes, some years back a person in the Riverina told me all about how the tachographs could be defeated...
As to autonomous cars, would I ride in a road vehicle that could lock me in and take me somewhere I did not want to go - or limit my travel as a form of censure? Absolutely not! |
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Civil rights campaigners and privacy laws might be a sticking point to these new features you mention. |
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My father in Law is a farmer. & his 4 wheel Bike has ( I think) 4 different keys. Each one has a different power setting. If the grandkids want a ride he puts #1 in & it wont go much faster than walking speed.
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Security will improve. Rewards are greater then risk |
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The masses dont understand they have already revealed everything via their smartphones and computer usage. |
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A very quick look on Google gives you this. https://electrek.co/2019/03/23/tesla...etition-crack/ https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...control-brakes https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/03/chin...ing-lanes.html https://www.zdnet.com/article/tesla-...n2own-contest/
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Opal cards, internet baking, credit cards, e Health etc.. cameras with facial recognition etc is already out... the masses are trying to figure out how to pay the next bills. |
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TEsla has over the air updates for security patches like Windows, android, apple and all other computer systems. |
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Well being a tech guy (I'm a propeller head) it's quite funny my car (MY03 WRX) is relatively low tech. And that's why I like it really. None of this **** intervening with driving.
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kmav23, you did not understand my first response to you but does not matter.
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It's a very interesting time right now. There's the promise of a paradigm shift in technology that could free motoring - the prospect of zero-cost power and extremely low maintenance. But it is married to George Orwell '1984' style surveillance and is not secure.
Wheras if you look back, there was fuel to pay for, maintenance could be constant tuning, but it was fun, had freedom, fewer rules and less intrusion. So I sit on the fence, look backward, look forward. The sheer scale of price rises of some pretty mundane machinery from the 70's and 80's shows you people are valuing the old nostalgic feeling of freedom. The ultimate would be the zero-cost electric drivetrain with the connectivity of a 60 series Landcruiser (ie, none) and all of the freedom it could give you. Maybe electric conversions of classics will be the answer.
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I understand people who see there cars as part of their life but not a huge part. I use my cars to keep my mind focused and the rest of me physically fit and moving. I am writing this at 3.48 am while at work and most of the night I have been researching FG Falcon suspension parts. Cars and drag racing keep me engaged with the community and mentally active. If I reach 70 and have to hitch my car trailer to an autonomous vehicle to get to the strip I'd be surprised. I do think that the biggest threat to our enthusiastic motoring is not technology but the green movement with their insidious climate change mantra which is nothing to do with the environment but a method to redistribute wealth. |
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